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...RAILWAY POLICE AND THE LAST TROLLEY RIDE by Hortense Calisher. 248 pages. Little, Brown...
...entrants, 17 finished. Once cyclist, riding an 1180 sprint cycle, had a flat tire, and two were injured when their bikes slipped on wet trolley tracks. The last one vanished entirely. If you know him and he's safe, tell somebody, so the timers can go home...
...worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...
...person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding, by which he addressed Chagall), describing him as having hair like "the trolley cable across Europe arrayed in little many-colored fires." He did Chagall a better favor by instigating a show in 1914 in Berlin. It was a sensation with the German expressionists...
...quite find one, and his route took him past many of the familiar inscrutabilities of an island where the kimono is dismembered before laundering, where the men wear long underwear in summer and in winter peel off their overcoats to bow to a friend, where the women surrender trolley seats to boys and rank no higher than condiments at table, where dinner ends with soup, and the guests, invited for eight o'clock, arrive at six or ten. But the Rudofsky tour is conducted with such irresistible charm, wit, grace and style that the reader is inspired to affection...